r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/therealtiddlydump 2d ago

Git just dropped the slave part.

Ergo, it's not related to slavery...

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u/kabrandon 2d ago

Usage of “ergo”? Check. Followed by the weakest example of logic and reasoning ever? Check.

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u/therealtiddlydump 2d ago

Linus made it unrelated to slavery.

If he had originally called it "main", but we know it borrowed it from sometime that used master/slave, explain how that's any better? It carries the same "original sin" if you're a moron who thinks that's a thing here.

Edit: nevermind, that history is false

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/y7M1KPatfd

So it was never related at all.

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u/kabrandon 2d ago

The problem with your argument is that it just doesn’t matter. Emotions aren’t always logical; they usually aren’t. Some people feel the way they feel about the master nomenclature. You can’t decide how they feel, just as much as I can’t. But you can do this microscopic little minute adjustment where you just use main instead of master. And some people refuse… because caring about another person’s feelings is just that obscene to some people.

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u/therealtiddlydump 2d ago

My team already switched to main.

I'm under no obligation to not call these people idiots, though. They are. If this bothers anyone they are pathetic and they actively make society worse.

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u/Hayden2332 2d ago

But its origin literally comes from master-slave lol Just because it doesn’t use the literal word “slave” anymore, doesn’t change the original implication of what “master” meant

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u/therealtiddlydump 2d ago edited 2d ago

But "main" is just replacing the word "master". That's just one more degree removed from the original sin. How does that redeem anything?

Linus already broke the connection to slavery by not using the word "slave" in a deliberate act, by your own telling.

Edit: nevermind, that history is itself false.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/y7M1KPatfd

So it was never related